The most arrogant in history

Chapter 468: Tai College and Doctoral College.

Ye Kun highly praised the efforts and achievements of the research team and said with a smile:

"I still say the same thing. Whoever develops a stable radio device will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of gold. If multiple people cooperate, then we can share the profits. If it's not enough, I'll add another 3,000 taels!"

In recent years, Ye Kun has vigorously supported the scientific research industry, and no one knows how much money he has invested.

Equipment, materials, wages, living expenses, bonuses...

A scientific research team of more than 20,000 people is not a very large number, but it costs more to feed them than to feed an army of 50,000 people!

One piston in a steam engine requires seven or eight kilograms of gold.

Before a substitute was found, the cost of steam engines was extremely high.

But Ye Kun didn't care and told everyone: "Use as much as you want. If it's not enough, I'll give you more."

The living allowances and salaries of scientific researchers are very high, and the food they eat is specially supplied, good and healthy.

After more than ten years of scientific research, all the researchers here have become wealthy.

Some researchers were still very upright and said with a smile:

"Han Wang, we don't think money matters, but it's actually fun to spend a lifetime thinking about one thing and creating something."

"Yes, this is the spirit of scientific research, the spirit of exploration."

Ye Kun was very pleased and nodded, saying, "I hope that starting from this generation, we can establish a strong spirit of scientific research and exploration. In the future, we in China will have endless food to eat, endless clothes to wear, and endless conveniences to enjoy."

Someone didn't quite believe it and asked, "King Han, it seems that our technology currently doesn't have it, especially electricity and steam engines..."

"Nonsense." Ye Kun smiled and said while counting on his fingers:

“Didn’t soap, matches, glass, brown sugar, and oil pressing technology change our lives? When the clock appeared, it became much easier to read and calculate time, didn’t it?

Electricity and steam engines will be the greatest inventions in human history. With electricity, I can use water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. With oxygen, I can raise the temperature of the furnace by several hundred degrees to produce special steel, which can be made into drill bits and lathe blades to cut iron like mud.

With the steam engine, our big ships can travel 5,000 miles a day!"

The man's eyes widened and he grinned foolishly: "Steam engines are so powerful."

"There are also internal combustion engines that are even more powerful and can carry humans into the sky. By then, it will only take one meal time to get from Chang'an to Jinling."

"How...can it fly?" No one could imagine.

Pang Jia said proudly: "You may not know, but our Mohist ancestor once made a wooden mandarin duck that could carry people and fly in the sky for three days and three nights. But later, the technology was lost."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Everyone has played with bamboo dragonflies. Just think about it, if we have a micro engine installed under the bamboo dragonfly and let the two wings of the bamboo dragonfly rotate continuously, can the bamboo dragonfly fly in the sky all the time?"

In fact, the principle of the helicopter is based on the bamboo dragonfly.

Someone asked: "In another ten years, can we use steam engines to take us to the sky?"

“It may not work in ten years, but it will work eventually.”

Ye Kun couldn't bear to undermine everyone's confidence.

Even if Ye Kun lived another hundred years and kept a clear mind and energy, he would not be able to build a helicopter.

If we live another two hundred years and the whole country works together, perhaps it will be about the same.

In the evening, Ye Kun held a tea party in the Science and Technology City conference room, convening the heads and technical backbones of various research institutes to have a meeting and discuss.

Jin Feng, director of the Astronomical Observatory, also attended the meeting with several assistants.

Ye Kun stood up and said:

"Tonight, we will not talk about work, but the history of human technological development and the future prospects of human development. Everyone can speak freely. If you have any questions or ideas, you can raise them and we can discuss them together."

Everyone was very cautious and refused to speak.

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Then please ask our Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory Director Jin Feng to talk to us about the history of Chinese astronomy, and talk about the great topics of the universe, the earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars."

Everyone welcomed him with applause.

Jin Feng stood up, clasped his fists, and after the applause stopped, he said with a smile:

"Many of the astronomical and cosmological knowledge recorded by our ancestors were wrong. Fortunately, King Han corrected these errors. We have a correct understanding of the universe, so now our calendar is becoming more and more accurate, and we can accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses.

Even the orbits and appearance times of certain unlucky stars can be calculated.”

Then, Jinfeng talked about the relationship between the movements of the earth, the moon and the sun, the eight planets in the solar system, the Milky Way and the universe.

Someone asked: "According to the King of Han, apples and pears fall from trees to the ground because of the gravity of the earth and universal gravitation. So why doesn't the moon fall down?"

Jin Feng looked at Ye Kun and wanted to say something but didn't dare to.

Ye Kun has already taught Jin Feng in detail about gravity.

There is also the formula for the gravitational constant, the concepts of the first cosmic velocity, the second cosmic velocity, and the third cosmic velocity...

However, the knowledge is complex and profound, and cannot be verified intuitively. Jin Feng only partially understands it and is still studying it.

Ye Kun personally stood up and gave everyone a brief explanation:

"Universal gravitation is mutual. The moon is affected by the gravity of the earth, and at the same time by the gravity of the sun, as well as the speed of rotation. Many complex reasons determine the operating mode of the earth-moon system.

We have considered establishing a Tai College and a Doctoral School in the next two years to select outstanding students from the university to continue their studies and cultivate them into top talents.

The textbooks of the Tai Academy and the Doctoral College will contain specific data on the operation of the universe, as well as derived theories and formulas. "

Everyone believed Ye Kun's words and were very yearning.

Someone asked: "King Han, the Hetu Luoshu, Lianshan, and Zhouyi in the history of our Chinese nation seem to be different from what you said about the universe and heaven. Why is that? Which one is more accurate?"

Ye Kun smiled and said, "I can only be responsible for giving a reasonable explanation for the theory I proposed. As for the River Chart and Luoshu, the Lianshan Zhouyi, the Five Elements and Yin and Yang, I have never studied them, nor do I express any opinions. If you want to discuss the Taoist view of the universe, you may as well ask the great Taoist Zhang Mi for advice."

Everyone laughed.

People in the research institute have basically abandoned the Taoist theory of the five elements and yin and yang.

Just look at the actual experimental results.

Someone else asked, "Excuse me, King Han, in traditional Chinese medicine, there are blood vessels, qi channels, and acupuncture points. Do these qi channels exist? Can they be seen?"

Ye Kun raised his hand, pointed at the big boss of the medical school, and said with a smile:

"Under our microscope, we cannot see meridians and acupuncture points. As for whether they exist, I dare not conclude. I still need to seek advice from the great masters of the medical field."

The medical school expert smiled bitterly and said, "It is true that meridians and acupuncture points cannot be seen under a microscope, and anatomy does not support their existence. But in our actual medical treatment, they do exist."